Pan-lifter.



J. H. WULFORD.

PAN LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8. 1914.

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JOSEPH HOWARD WOLFORD, F CLIFTON STATION, VIRGINIA.

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I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ring. 3, 1915.

Application filedMay 8, 19144. Serial No, 837,326. I

To aZZ whom it may concern I Be it k wn that I, JosErH H. vVoLroRo,

I a citizen of the United States, residing at Clifton-Station, in the county of Fairfax, State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pan-Lifters; andl do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,

This invention relates to pan lifters I The object of the invention resides in the provision of a device of the character named through the instrumentality of which a 1 heated pan may. be removed from a stove -with ease and facility and Without danger of burning the hand.

A further object of the inventionresides in the provision of a device of the character named which will be simple in construction;

efficient in use and which can be manufactured at a relatively small cost.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the details of construction andin the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and particularlypointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of refer ence denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pan lifter constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view looking at the opposite sides of the lifter and showing same applied to a pan; Fig. 3, a View looking at the outer ends of the pan engaging fingers with the latter in closed position, and Fig. 4, a section on the line ll of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing the improved pan litter is shown as comprising arms A and B connected together intermediate their ends by a pivot pin 10. These arms A and B terminate at one end in handle portions 11 res ectively and at their other ends in lateral y directed pan engaging fingers 12 and 13 respectively. These fingers 12 and 13 when disposed at the limit of their move ment toward each other he substantially with respect to their transverse dimensions in the plane of the side of a cylinder so as to readily bear against the outer side of a pan having a substantially cylindrical shape. Pivotally mounted on the pin 10 is an arm 1%- the free end of which terminates in .a pan engaging finger 15 disposed outwardly of the fingers 12 and 13. Projecting from the arm "'14 between the arms A and B is astud 16 which is adapted to engage in recesses formed in the arms A and B to limit the movement of theends of the arms A and B carrying the fingers 12 and 13 toward each other. In the use of the device the ends of the arms A and B carrying the fingers 12 and 13 are spread apart and the finger 15 of the arm 14 is engaged against the inner face of the side" of the pan. The arms A and B arethen operated to force the fingers '12 and 13 toward each other when they will engage the outer face of the side-of the pan am ne iatterwill then be securely clamped between the finger 15 and the fingers 12 and 131when it may be lifted and carried to a suitable location-"as desired.

It willalso be noted that the stud 16, when the device is in gripping relation to a pan overlies the arms AMand P so that any tendency of the arm 14 to rise and slip over the top of the pan is prevented.

hat is claimed is I A pan lifter comprising a pair of arms, a pivot pin connecting said arms intermediate of their ends, pan engaging fingers formed on corresponding ends of said arms, a third arm pivotally mounted on said pivot pin and having its free end terminating in a pan engaging finger disposed outwardly of the pan engaging fingers carried by the first named arms, and means carried by the third arm for limiting the movement toward each other of those ends of the first named arms which carry pan engaging fingers.

In testimony whereof, I .afiix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH HOWARD WOLFORD.

Witnesses R. R. BUCKLEY, D. W. 'BnoKLnY. 

